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Food Before Fuel campaign launches to protest against Food-To-Fuel policies

If you belong to the group that thinks that we shouldn't use food as fuel, you might be interested in this. The "Food Before Fuel" group, a partnership of more than 20 environmental, retail, hunger, Hispanic and food industry groups that has launched a campaign to encourage Congress to rethink the U. S. food-to-fuel policies. According to their sources, these policies are responsible to up to 30 percent of the world's food price inflation. The campaign wants to revisit and restructure policies that have increased our reliance on ... Read more →

Global biofuel industry representatives defend their product at UN conference Sebastian Blanco

Photo by Hummanna. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Food security is a big issue in global politics these days, and the UN is starting a three-day conference in Rome today to discuss it. ...

"The worst moment in history to demand biofuels" Sam Abuelsamid

As the world's population continues to grow toward a projected 9 billion people by the early 2040s, the demand for food, fresh water and energy will grow with it. At the same time, supplies (water, in ...

Food Before Fuel campaign launches to protest against Food-To-Fuel policies 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

If you belong to the group that thinks that we shouldn't use food as fuel, you might be interested in this. The "Food Before Fuel" group, a partnership of more than 20 environmental, retail, hunger, Hispanic and food industry groups that has launched a campaign to encourage Congress to rethink the ...

Global biofuel industry representatives defend their product at UN conference 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by Hummanna. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Food security is a big issue in global politics these days, and the UN is starting a three-day conference in Rome today to discuss it. Since some food crops are currently used to make fuel, representatives from the biofuel industry ...

"The worst moment in history to demand biofuels" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As the world's population continues to grow toward a projected 9 billion people by the early 2040s, the demand for food, fresh water and energy will grow with it. At the same time, supplies (water, in particular) are shrinking. So, does it really make it sense to suddenly accelerate the use of crops ...


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